Starting and Growing a New Business
A Woman’s Experience

Thursday, March 29, 2007
5:30 to 8:30 PM

The Water’s Edge (Giovanni’s II), Darien, Connecticut
$45 for WIM Members $55 for Non-members
(includes networking, cash bar, dinner, and speaker)

Find the financing you need to start-up or grow a business with expert advice from two top business owners. Both will share their special insights as women seeking investors to buy or build a business.

Lisa Yarnell and Carina Ramirez Cahan speak from experience as executives and entrepreneurs in the services, technology, and retail industries. Now they will share the best ways to attract early-stage investors into a start-up company. And help you identify and buy high-potential businesses, then find investors to fund growth.

About our speakers: Lisa Yarnell is now CEO of Jane & Co., LLC, a cosmetics company she acquired (with an investment partner) from The Estee Lauder Companies. Ms. Yarnell is a turn-around specialist with over 25 years of leadership experience at L’Oreal, Colgate-Palmolive, International Playtex and other consumer goods giants. Carina Ramirez Cahan is Co-founder and Board Member of Biodiesel Technologies, Inc. and a veteran of over 20 years in strategic planning and marketing with Morgan Stanley, Hoechst Celanese and other market leaders.